Come and enjoy a day filled with real family fun in Thirsk.
We will be having lots of stalls, featuring food and gifts, as well as Continue reading 28th August 2010 | Charity Summer Fayre | Disability Action Yorkshire
Come along the second-hand book sale at 8 Castlegate in Thirsk on 17th July 2010. The perfect excuse to pick up those lazy summer reads for your holiday! Continue reading 17th July 2010 | Charity Book Sale | Disability Action Yorkshire
Deaf Awareness Week 2010 – 28th June to 4th July 2010
Over one hundred deaf charities are uniting beneath the umbrella organisation The UK Council on Deafness for “Look at Me”, the banner adopted by Deaf Awareness Week from 28th June to 4th July 2010.
The theme aims to highlight the different types of deafness and explain the many different methods of communication used by deaf people.
The word deaf is used to describe a whole range of conditions relating to deafness: according to figures from the World Health Organisation, there are currently 278 million deaf people across the world, 80 per cent of which live in developing countries; of these, 25% became deaf as children.
Other types of deafness include people who have become deafened later in life, deafblind people, the hard of hearing and people affected by tinnitus, all of whom use different forms of communication. Continue reading Look At Me: Deaf Awareness Week 2010 | 28th June to 4th July 2010
For those of us that bearly knock out a tune in the shower even the most tuneless of us cannot resist a sing-a-long at Christmas time! Continue reading Oh Come all Ye Faithful…Christmas Carols in York
Pre-school is an important time in the life of a child to learn, and for those who have children and live in and around the city of York there is a great number of highly rated pre-school nurseries to chooses from.
Picking a good pre-school nursery can be a difficult choice. Some people choose based solely Continue reading Under – 4 and Over Here! Pre-school and Nursery Options around York
Scarborough Dance Festival 2009
Has Strictly left you with a desire to dance?
Perhaps you are a seasoned professional?
Either way, the Scarborough Dance Festival has something for you!
Running from Tuesday 10th to Sunday 15th November, the festival is a six-day celebration of everything Ballroom, with a Festival programme packed full of dancing events, classes and competitions.
Dancing is a great way to get active and to meet people: The Scarborough Festival has 12 years experience in putting on first-class entertainment and tuition Continue reading Dancing Queens and Mambo Kings: Scarborough Dance Festival 2009
York Ghost Festival: ‘Orribly Original
A host of ghostly goings on are manifesting in York over Halloween from Saturday 24th October to Sunday 1st November, when the sixth York Ghost Festival takes place in a spirited celebration of the paranormal.
Since 2004, the York-based Paranormal and Spectral Investigations (PSI) group in conjunction with Haunted has been organising a feast of supernatural activities in England’s most haunted city Continue reading Fun and Frights at the York Ghost Festival from 24th October 2009
